10 passkey survival tips: The best preparation for a password-less future is to start living there now

gremlin/Getty Images Sooner or later, it's coming: You'll be logging into one of your favorite websites or applications, and you'll find no option to supply a user ID and password. There won't even be a password field. (The jury is still out on the user ID field.) You'll simply choose from a personalized dropdown list of credentials valid for that site or app and, if all goes well, you'll be granted access. Today, this auto-magical, password-less process is hardly bulletproof. But, our industry sources assure us, it will get better. Considering that today is World Password Day (as if you shouldn't pay close attention to your password best practices every day of the year), what preparations do you need to make now for this brave new world of passkeys? Quite a few, actually. How did we get here? Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other members of the FIDO Alliance – the consortium developing and promoting the passkey standard – are leading this titanic shift in how we authenticate with si ... Read full article.